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Bob Marley - Herald of a Postcolonial World? (Hardcover)
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Bob Marley - Herald of a Postcolonial World? (Hardcover)
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Is Bob Marley the only third world superstar? How did he achieve
this unique status? In this captivating new study of one of the
most influential musicians of the twentieth century, Jason Toynbee
sheds new light on issues such as Marley's contribution as a
musician and public intellectual, how he was granted access to the
global media system, and what his music means in cultural and
political terms.
Tracing Marley's life and work from Jamaica to the world stage,
Toynbee suggests that we need to understand Marley first and
foremost as a 'social author'. Trained in the co-operative yet also
highly competitive musical laboratory of downtown Kingston, Marley
went on to translate reggae into a successful international style.
His crowning achievement was to mix postcolonial anger and hope
with Jamaican textures and beats to produce the first world music.
However the period since his death has been marked by brutal and
intensifying inequality in the capitalist world system. There is an
urgent need, then, to reconsider the nature of his legacy. Toynbee
does this in the concluding chapters, weighing Marley's impact as
advocate of human emancipation against his marginalisation as a
'Natural Mystic' and pretext for disengagement from radical
politics.
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